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Clinical Electrophysiology Fellowship
Message from the Director
The Clinical Electrophysiology Training Program at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine is a two-year program providing fellows with state of the art training in all aspects of cardiac electrophysiology and device implantation and follow-up. The program accepts one trainee per year. Typically there is a senior and junior electrophysiology fellow working in tandem with an attending electrophysiologist in the electrophysiology laboratory, arrhythmia and device clinic and on the arrhythmia consult service.
The Electrophysiology Program has four attending electrophysiologists including Drs. Deborah Wolbrette, Gerald V. Naccarelli, Mario Gonzalez, Soraya Samii, Javier Banchs and Mark Cohen (a pediatric electrophysiologist). The program is designed to meet all of the requirements for board eligibility in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and provides level 3 COCATS training in clinical electrophysiology, ablation, and device implantation and follow-up. Training in intracardiac electrophysiology studies, radiofrequency and cryo catheter ablation of tachyarrhythmias in adults and children, intracardiac echocardiography, 3-D mapping, transeptal catheter techniques, cardioversion, pacemaker, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and biventricular pacemaker insertion and follow-up, and tilt table testing is offered. A continuity outpatient experience in the arrhythmia clinic along with arrhythmia consultation of a diverse arrhythmia population including postoperative arrhythmias, arrhythmias from patients on a busy congestive heart failure/ cardiac transplant service and an adult congenital heart disease program is emphasized. Trainees are exposed and can participate in clinical and basic research. Research emphasis is on clinical trials involving investigational antiarrhythmic drugs and implantable devices.
Candidates for fellowship must submit a completed application form with a recent photograph, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference. All applications will be reviewed after the application is compete and after all three letters of reference are received. One of these letters must be from the head of the Department of Medicine or from the Residency Director. Applicants granted interviews will be notified, and a date of interview will be arranged. Although travel expenses will be the responsibility of the applicant, free lodging will be provided for the night prior to the interview. Click here to download the application in PDF format. All inquiries regarding the Cardiology Fellowship Program should be directed to: Deborah Wolbrette, M.D.
Program Director, CCEP Fellowship Program
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
P.O. Box 850, MC H047
Hershey, PA 17033
Research is a vital part of the section of cardiology and all electrophysiology fellows are encouraged to participate in ongoing research projects. Recent publications in electrophysiology include: - Naccarelli GV, Wolbrette DL, Luck JC: Results of clinical trials. In Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside, Third Edition. Zipes DP, Jalife J (editors), W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA. 2000; pp 790-798.
- Naccarelli GV, Dell'Orfano JF, Wolbrette DL, Patel HM, Luck JC: Acute cost-effective management of atrial fibrillation: Role of rate control, spontaneous conversion, cardioversion, and antiembolic therapy. American Journal of Cardiology (In press).
- Naccarelli GN, Wolbrette DL, Patel HM, Luck JC. Amiodarone: Clinical Trials. Current Opinions in Cardiology 2000; 15:64-72.
- Naccarelli GV, Wolbrette DL, Patel HM, Luck JC. A critical appraisal of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator/drug trials in the secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death. In: Fighting Sudden Cardiac Death: A Worldwide Challenge. Aliot E, Clementy and Prystowsky EN (editors), Futura Publishing Company, Armonk, NY. 2000; pp 651-659.
- Patel HM, Luck JC, Dell'Orfano JT, Wolbrette DL, Naccarelli GV. Light on wide QRS tachycardia, Part 1: Distinguishing the mechanisms. Journal of Critical Illness 200; 15(9): 474-482.
- Patel HM, Luck JC, Dell'Orfano JT, Wolbrette DL, Naccarelli GV. Light on wideQRS tachycardia, Part 2: ECG diagnosis, treatment. Journal of Critical Illness 2000; 15(10): 531-537.
- Naccarelli GV, Wolbrette DL, Luck JC. Proarrhythmia. In Medical Clinics of North America 2001; 85(2): 503-525.
- Naccarelli GV, Antzelevitch C, Wolbrette DL, Luck JC. The Brugada syndrome. Current Opinions in Cardiology 2002; 17: 19-23.
- Luck JC, Wolbrette DL, Boehmer JP, Silber D, Naccarelli GV. Biventricular pacing in congestive heart failure: A boost toward finer living. Current Opinions in Cardiology 2002; 17: 96-101.
- Luck JC, Wolbrette DL, Artman SE, Ulsh P J, Naccarelli GV. Biventricular pacing for congestive heart failure: Is there a learning curve? Med J Pacing Electrophysiology MESPE Journal 2002; 1: 9-14.
- Luck JC, Bhatta L, Artman SE, Wolbrette DL, Pantaloni MA, Naccarelli GV. Entrainment of ventricular tachycardia with a permanent biventricular pacemaker. J Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology 2002; 7:105-111.
- Naccarelli GV, Hynes J, Wolbrette DL, Bhatta L, Khan M, Luck J. Maintaining stability of sinus rhythm in atrial fibrillation: antiarrhythmic drugs versus ablation. Current Cardiology Reports 2002; 4: 418-425.
- Luck JC, Premature Beats.. In Conn's Current Therapy 2003, R.E. Rakel, Editor, W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA 2003; (In press)
Jessica Shaak
Penn State College of Medicine
MC H047; Box 850
500 University Dr.
Hershey, Pa 17033 Voice: 717-531-6746
FAX: 717-531-0099
e-mail: jshaak@psu.edu
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